comedy has mostly been a cable thing, no?
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, this isn't 'self-releasing his DVD' it's 'skipping Showtime/HBO/Comedy Central entirely'
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, this isn't 'self-releasing his DVD' it's 'skipping Showtime/HBO/Comedy Central entirely' --Kiarostami bag (milo z)
iirc, he got the idea to do a self-release because HBO was apprehensive about shelling out for his new special.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's just weird to me that no one did this until 2012, especially in a sector that prizes control over one's career
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh.http://www.avclub.com/articles/louis-cks-cbs-sitcom-will-now-star-ashley-tisdale,69762/
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
did i miss that somehow?
10-year old sitcom he sold to CBS is getting picked back up, his involvement is going to be minimal AFAIK
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tisdale is pretty good. I predict nobody will write about how much they hate this as much as they do "Girls".
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
probably no one will care about it enough to write about it
― mh, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gotta say I love how well the one-man approach to everything is working here. Like in the Heckler/Cop episode, the Matthew Broderick/"Your father is dead" scene and the gas station holdup one both seem like they could have been from a good episode of Arrested Development or Curb (respectively), but the heckler situation was something totally unique to this show, since it's designed to sort of make you feel bad for the lady, as Louie comes down so hard on her, just saying whatever nasty stuff he can think of, regardless of whether or not it makes sense or is even funny. It just feels very unscripted and awkward and the kind of thing that most every other sitcom would try to rewrite, but Louie just kind of leaves it as-is.
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't feel sorry for her at all, I have zero patience for drunk assholes who think yelling things at concerts or comedy shows makes them funny.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's like when people at baseball games lean over the fence to try to catch the ball. YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE GAME, SIT DOWN.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
absolutely, she was a pretty loathsome character (especially her line about Louie hating her because she's attractive, or whatever), but I think Louie's response was supposed to be a bit over-the-top, especially as most of his jokes don't even make sense
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's kind of a boringly 'easy' scene compared to something like the Pamela scenes where he's getting ripped apart by a woman who's as smart or smarter than him, though
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/#!/louisck/status/198213541168300033
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
A white person from New York likes Girls?! ;-)
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
perhaps this is my naivete but i have kind of thought of louis ck as ~~~~~~~something more than a mere white guy~~~~~~~~~~~~ for some time now
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
he is a mexican...tell hilarious jokes!
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
the encore on the carnegie hall show is incredible
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
press sez 4 oscar winners in new season
my guesses
marisa tomeijoe pesciwhoopi goldbergjames cameron
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 May 2012 23:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
the corpse of hattie mcdaniel
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 May 2012 00:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
weird
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 26 May 2012 09:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
his picture was a question on jeopardy tnite. no one got it tho.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
One of those Oscar winners will be someone you'd never expect, like Cuba Gooding Jr.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
one episode will have Juicy J, another will have DJ Paul
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
every episode will feature crunchy black
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Seinfeld and Maron appear in the upcoming season.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
gbx's point upthread about how tuning into this show is a must just to see what happens is totally OTM - I've never seen a show with so much diversity/fucking with expectations. You can tell his whole point is not to just make people laugh and lately I've been really appreciating that - great episodes of the Simpsons or Seinfeld make me laugh more but episodes of this (like the one with Doug Stanhope) just kind of stick with you; especially if you see them more than once
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
You can tell his whole point is not to just make people laugh
Hope so, given the dearth of laughs in a depressing second season (which I still loved). For a comedy, an awful lot of people died in horrible ways. Plus, his sister goes insane, the love of his life leaves him hanging to hang in France, he can't afford his dream home, he's menaced by trick or treaters, he has to grovel to Dane Cook ... show's gone even darker than I imagined it would.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
I think it's to the point where you can't really just call it a comedy anymore. Dunno what you'd call it but even the first season was like that - the church/crucifixion episode had virtually no laughs at all! (outside of the standup bits, of course)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
It was at least kind of ruefully funny, the church ep, plus it had Lil' Louie. But the scenes in season 2 where he has to come to the rescue of his sister ... that's just sad and heartbreaking.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's an experiment
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
I *love* that church episode
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 21:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
me too
and him and his Mum getting donuts afterwards
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's portraiture
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
i still don't really 'get' the church episode
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
I don't even remember what episode that is so I really don't 'get' it.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
What's to get? Definitely say through some traumatizing sermons as a kid, it hit a nerve for me.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
1 of the pts louie emphasized in the commentary 2 the 'god' episode was the image/act of the custodian having 2 re-nail jesus 2 the wall at the end of the day
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
he doesnt mean it as symbolic or deep or w/e btw just like the guy being all eh ok i had 2 sweep the hallway and now i have to do this thing too
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
i mean i guess what i didn't 'get' was where the comedy was?
like given that this is ostensibly a(n often dark) comedy program i was sort of imagining that there was some (perhaps so dark as to be opaque) humor in the church episode
so when i say i don't 'get it' i just mean 'am i supposed to laugh somewhere or am i not supposed to be laughing, cause if i watch louie and don't laugh i just assume i'm missing the joke'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 07:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
that's the joy of Louie!
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 07:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
I attended a Catholic school for many years (even though I'm a Jew!) and I can say that the episode was actually really accurate w/r/t the way these guys can scare these kids about religion; I went through the same stuff when I was 10! Those guys can be brutal. The actor who played the pastor was amazing. One thing I love about the show is that it has a lot of those real tense moments because it feels like it's a documentary; with most every other show you always have some sense of where things are going because of previous episodes, or just certain tropes or conventions that you see over and over, you know who's going to screw up, you know which problems are going to get resolved, you know who's coming through in the end - Louie really feels like it could go in any direction at any time, especially with all the surreal fantasy/absurdist scenes
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
um, guess who i met
― indian rope trick (remy bean), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
well, not met. but i just found out i'm friends w/ louis ck's third grade teacher, who gave him the nickname 'ck' (he says) and also threw a pie in louis's face. apparently louis semi-obsessively drew pictures of people getting pies in their face, and my friend made note of it and, on the last day of school, threw a pie in his face. all the other students came over and scraped the filling off louis's face and ate it.
― indian rope trick (remy bean), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
That sounds absolutely wrong until I realised he probably didn't have much facial hair.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
awkward laughing at human nature or revelations about your own relation to the material being presented, imo
I thought that episode was hilarious because the church-types are using the suffering and trials as Jesus as a way to put fear in the kids, but they're completely tone-deaf on the fact that lil' Louie is actually shaken up by it and feels a connection. So when he's pulling Jesus off the cross, they just see vandalism! Which is hilarious because they use it as a symbol to scare kids, but they completely miss that this kid got the message more than they get it.
Janitor nailing it back up at the end is hilarious, because hey, Jesus is on that cross and that's just the way things are, kid. Nothing to see here, just routine. Gotta take the suffering for granted unless you're using it to scare kids./
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Nailing up Jesus at the end is the punch line, so fucking funny. Not really laugh-out-loud funny, but funny in a whole other way.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
It shouldn't have worked as a payoff/punch line, but it definitely did
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:20 (11 months ago) Permalink